Praful Patel
I am really, really excited by all the activity in the Indian aviation industry. Check out some of the headline-making news ....
- Virgin Atlantic starts London-Mumbai flights
- Kerala to start its own airline, with flights from Kerala to Gulf
- New airport for Kochi through a public/private partnership
- Approval lead times for new airlines shortened drastically
- Air One - Will focus on Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore
- Royal Air - Used to be Modiluft
- GO Air - Promoted by Nusli Wadia
- Spice Jet - Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Goa - Price will be the same as A/C coach rates in India - First 99 days, they are offering Rs. 99 tickets - On the first day, their call center went down due to call volume !
- Yamuna Air, Indus Air - Will be flying soon !
Also,
- China opens its skies to India
- Air India to buy 50 Boeings
- Jet starts Mumbai Singapore flights
- Jet Airways London flight on May 23
- Kingfisher first flight on May 9
- Air Sahara to start direct Chicago-Mumbai flight
- Air Sahara to start London Singapore flights
- Civil Aviation Ministry proposes to make Nagpur international airport
- Jet Airways orders 10 Airbus 300 / 200s at Paris Air Show
- Dynamic Pricing structure started
- Flight price auctions started
- Rediff.com fare searcher
And this is the person responsible for a good amount of this ... Praful Patel
I read an interview of his in India Today about a year ago and I was impressed by Mr. Patel's ideas.
I was somewhat incredulous about his actually achieving all of his plans. However, he has !!
- FDI cap in aviation increased
- Mumbai, Delhi airport modernization projects started
- Several airports to be privatized/modernized - 20-30 of them have been shortlisted
- Civil Aviation Target: Make traveling by air by the growing affluent middle class a norm than a luxury for the rich few
- FDI cap in domestic airlines increased from 49% to 74%
- "Just as the last decade was of IT and telecom, this decade will belong to the civil aviation sector" - Patel
I was checking out the price of a Delhi-Chennai roundtrip - Its 7,300 rupees now - Compare that to 20,000 rupees in 2001.
Comments
-6 = -6
9-15 = 4-10
adding 25/4 to both sides:
9-15+25/4 = 4-10+25/4
Changing the order
9+25/4-15 = 4+25/4-10
(this is just like a square + b square - two a b = (a-b)square.)
Here a = 3, b=5/2 for L.H.S and a =2, b=5/2 for R.H.S.
So it can be expressed as follows:
(3-5/2)(3-5/2) = (2-5/2)(2-5/2)
Taking positive square root on both sides:
3 - 5/2 = 2 - 5/2
3 = 2 ????????